The JSC deliberated on the matter and “advised the president that president Maya is suitable for appointment as deputy chief justice of the Republic of SA,” said JSC spokesperson Doris Tshepe. It was a majority decision.
The questions came after reports that in two matters — both related to former president Jacob Zuma — there had been clerical lapses at the appeal court's registrars office. Lawrence Mrwebi, then head of the NPA’s specialised commercial crime unit, it had transpired long after the hearing that “Mr Mrwebi was not actually represented in court. The reason was simply that he had not been furnished with a notice of set down by the registrar.”She and the other appeal court judges had done what they could, putting processes in place to make the court work.
There were “literally thousands” of processes going through the SCA every day. “And people are employed to attend to it ... They must do their work, that they are paid for. And we will do ours.” But as a judge for 22 years who had never recused herself from any case “my sense was that the proper thing was not to sit”.
I hope people have read what s174(3) of the Constitution says. We don't want noise
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